In the afternoon we started a discussion around the perils of data collection by those in power. We concluded with an overview of the project from both an ethical and philosophical perspective. I explained one of our goals is to put subjective data in contrast to objective data so that the subjects are seen as humans, not numbers. We changed our plans, instead of ideation we got to watch Nosedive, a chapter of Black Mirror, which reflects some of the moral implications associated with certain ways of doing data.

In the afternoon we did a mindmappint exercise: ‘Your personal Universe around this project’. Some students explored the web as a start to their research instead.

Day 9

January 24, 2018

Students brought a story they had individually selected to represent graphically through data. We discussed everybody’s story, and reflected on importance of qualitative/quantitative data. They engaged in their process of data segregation of their own stories.

Citizens First was a human security program managed by Oxfam Novib and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It supported citizens and local civil society organizations (CSOs) in Afghanistan and Pakistan to advocate for essential services in food security, agriculture, education and public health.

See links with reports:

http://www.sprockler.com/reports/oxfam/citizensfirst1/index.php

http://www.sprockler.com/reports/oxfam/citizensfirst2/index.php

https://visualizer.sprockler.com/en/open/oxfam2

Day 10

January 25, 2018

We Skyped Lisette from our respective homes (she was in Cairo). Lisette introduced herself, and we talked a little about the project: a large part of the data that was collected in written in Urdu, and we need to work only with the data that is written in English.